{"id":1021842,"date":"2026-07-17T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021842"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:46:00","slug":"judge-blocks-trump-administrations-visa-restrictions-for-foreign-researchers-trust-and-safety-professionals-including-ceo-of-the-us-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/judge-blocks-trump-administrations-visa-restrictions-for-foreign-researchers-trust-and-safety-professionals-including-ceo-of-the-us-based\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks Trump administration&#8217;s visa restrictions for foreign researchers, trust-and-safety professionals including CEO of the US-based &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an immigration policy that could deny visas or deport foreign researchers and trust-and-safety professionals working on misinformation, disinformation and online hate speech. Chief US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the policy likely violates the free speech protections of the US Constitution&#8217;s First Amendment. The decision also affects people linked to US-based organisations, including Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) CEO Imran Ahmed, who was among those previously targeted under the administration&#8217;s visa restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>For those unaware, the State Department imposed visa bans on five Europeans, including Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the U.S.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index in December last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an immigration policy that could deny visas or deport foreign researchers and trust-and-safety professionals working on misinformation, disinformation and online hate speech. Chief US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the policy likely violates the free speech protections of the US Constitution&#8217;s First Amendment. The decision also affects people linked to US-based organisations, including Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) CEO Imran Ahmed, who was among those previously targeted under the administration&#8217;s visa restrictions. For those unaware, the State Department imposed visa bans on five Europeans, including Imran Ahmed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021843,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021842\/revisions\/1021843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}